Summary
For many years, Melissa Monroe has been assembling one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary American poetry, drawing on all different kinds of writing, from technical manuals to books of spells to dictionaries of slang, to explore the many ways-poetry is, after all, one of them-in which we human beings seek to know and control the elusive realities of the world around and within us. Her subject is both the strangeness of things and the strangeness of the things we think, and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681374581 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681374587 |
| Author: | Melissa Monroe |
| Publisher: | The New York Review Of Books, Inc |
| Imprint: | NYRB Poets |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 175 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2020 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm |
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About The Author
Melissa Monroe
Melissa Monroe is a poet and linguist. Her previous volume of poetry, Machine Language, was published by Alef Books in 1997. She teaches at the New School for Social Research in New York.
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